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Boris Johnson says “people of talent” not “people of colour.”

Our earlier tweet was a mistake. We misheard and we apologise

Post a clip of his speech and we can decide for ourselves what he said.

Video is all over Twitter. Definitely sounds like "colour" to me.

What is the truth?

He was speaking in that posh, clipped, hurried style that he often uses when he wants people to pay more attention to style than substance.

It's not actually very clear, but if you listen to it on a mobile device without the benefit of the speech notes you'll probably hear something closer to colour than talent.

I hope someone grabbed the video and can post it on 'tinternet, so that we can all see.

It's on Chuka's twitter feed. I've just listened to it and still can't hear anything other than "colour".

I just listened to Johnson's speech with my eyes closed to not be influenced by the subtitles ... it's garbled. It's like one of those optical illusions (auditory illusion?) I can hear both. Sometimes it seems more like one than the other - and sometimes it's the other way around.

The take home from this (if he genuinely said 'people of talent') is that when you start a phrase 'people of...' your audience will already be filling in the next word before you say it - so that is really really not the word to not enunciate properly. And that if what you want to say is 'people of talent' than maybe the less easy to confuse 'talented people' might be a better way of saying it.

Unless he purposefully garbled 'talent' so people would assume 'colour' (getting his racists on side) but when the inevitable outrage kicked off they could point out he really said 'talent' (biased liberal media picking on poor Boris)
And maybe - just maybe - people might stop talking about the cowardly piece of chicken shit's refusal to face the same scrutiny his opponents have already undergone, with Andrew Neil.

twitter.com/chukaumunna/status/1202914373464969216

It's like that dress isn't it ? People will hear what they want to hear.

The take home from this (if he genuinely said 'people of talent') is that when you start a phrase 'people of...' your audience will already be filling in the next word before you say it

And if you are a PM with troubling views on race, people will fill it based partly on knowledge of your past statements.

A master strategist would show that the intended sentence was:

people of talent regardless of colour and it was a simple "mis-speaking" (© Hillary Clinton).

Heard it now, thanks. He most definitely said colour - the emphasis is different: colour - equal emphasis on both syllables, talent - emphasis on the first.

That said, I think such a strategy may be a bit rarefied for some

So what right do they have to dictate timing?

In my opinion none, I didnt say I agreed with the Labour position, I think the right to self determination should reside in the country that wants to self rule, I'm Welsh and have had similar arguments with my fellow Welsh

I notice though that people have piled in against Chuka Umunna's tweet. I wonder why? Well, I don't wonder why - the racist, bigotted Johnson gets a free pass from most of our media.

Another load of lies, spin and bollocks from the Toxic Party. The odious lying twat definitely said, "people of colour."

I wasn't sure at first, but if you listen with one ear and turn the volume up - he definitely says, 'people of talent.'

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I wasn't sure at first, but if you listen with one ear and turn the volume up - he definitely says, 'people of talent.'

And if you squint really really hard and wish for it to come true

Another load of lies, spin and bollocks from the Toxic Party.

Channel 4 has now posted an explicit correction, stating that they were wrong. Are they working for the Tory Party now? That's some epic conspiracy theory you've bought into!

I wasn't sure at first, but if you listen with one ear and turn the volume up - he definitely says, 'people of talent.'

The left racist ear or the right racist ear?

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I've genuinely listened to it several times and it doesn't sound like "talent" at all.

At the very least, the guy needs some speech training. How can you be so poor at public speaking after so many years in senior political roles?

Do they work in the same office do you think?

I am listening to James O'Brien (LBC) - he has just conceded that Boris Johnson said 'talent' - it takes quite a lot for James O'B to back down.

Is this going to end up as one of those "Yanni/Laurel" things?

Conservative voters who pretend to deny or claim to feel embarrassment for the institutional racism of their party will hear 'Talent,' whilst Conservative voters who were going to vote Tory because they're happy with the racism don't mind hearing the dogwhistle 'Colour'... the rest of us are neither here nor there.